Recession Priorities - Job Creation and New Business

At least that what one would think would be the goal of our elected officials in a recession, right?

Not so fast, the Indiana Chamber of Commerce is out with their rankings of our elected legislators and the results are a bit surprising. In the midst of a recession and massive unemployment increases, many of our elected leaders voted consistently against businesses, large and small, and the issues that would have helped them. As with any of our posts here, I encourage those leaders to dare to engage us and explain themselves.

Far too many northwest Indiana voters will go to the polls again next year and re-elect men and women who aren't doing the jobs we send them to do. This time, take a few minutes and get some facts on the bills your politician read and how they voted.

Senator Charbonneau 84% pro-business
Senator Landske 74%
Senator Tallian 57%

Rep. Soliday 82% pro-business
Rep. Moseley 50%
Rep. Brown 42%
Rep. Vandenburgh 45%

Now in our county, labor quite often leans on the Democrats to vote against business. But as far as I can tell there weren't big labor vs. business fights this year. Basically many of the votes against business were votes against doing government better to save us all money.

I will reiterate here again, as I have in other posts, Senator Landske should be celebrated as a regional leader, who's time to step aside for new leadership has come. Voting against government re-organization, especially for Lake County was a vote from days past.